Relationship between levels of <i>Cyr61</i>, <i>CTGF</i>, and <i>WISP-1</i> mRNA in lung cancer and the clinical and pathological features of these individuals.

†All patients included in this study were asked whether their living or dead first-degree relatives (parents, siblings, children) had been affected by a lung malignancy. ‡squamous-cell carcinoma; §adenocarcinoma; ¶adenosquamous-cell carcinoma; $including other pathological types except for squamous-cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, adeno-squamous cell carcinoma. *The value is the relative levels of normalized target genes by β-actin in cancer versus matched normal samples. **P<0.05 and P<0.01 are set for significant and highly significant difference, respectively.